Pencil#By marking material

A colored pencil, also called colored pencil is a writing or drawing instrument with a colored mine. As a shell of mine often varnished wood as copying or pencil is used.

History

Little is known about the history of the colored pencil. He was first mentioned in the early 19th century, but earlier crayons were probably made ​​.

Production

The mine of the colored pencil is made from pigments, fats, waxes, binders, talc and kaolin. After mixing the individual components together these are pressed, provided air-dried and with a wood casing.

In the manufacture of crayons but also partially phthalic acid is used. The crayons are coated with it. Phthalate plasticizers are for children who chew on crayons, in the larger period health. Although phthalic acid was used as plasticisers in toys by the EU already banned, but in the manufacture of colored pencils phthalate is still to be found.

Application

In contrast to the pencil leads of colored pencils do not draw gray black but colored. By tightly spaced lines (hatching ) are also colored surfaces can create. By a change in pressure strength of the paper delivered to the color intensity can be varied. Thickness soft crayons in bright colors are used as highlighter use. Color or crayons are particularly suitable as boarding material in the artistic representation techniques, as they combine drawing and painting elements.

Color pencils can be roughly divided into two categories. A distinction is made between wax and oil -based colored pencils. Well-known brands include Cretacolor, Sanford Prismacolor, Faber -Castell Polychromos, Derwent Artist and Colour Soft, Caran d'Ache Pablo and Lyra Rembrandt Polycolor. These pens are available in a large assortment boxes which contain up to 132 colors. With high-quality color pencils can create near-photographic images.

Crayons are also often used by fashion designers for drawing and coloring. For example, Karl Lagerfeld used Polychromos pens for his designs.

With crayons glazing techniques are possible. The pigments of the so-called watercolor pencils can be subsequently covering them with water. The main difference compared with pencils is that is very difficult, often not let the lines of commercial crayons also erase.